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Nevada Silver Corporation Commences Drilling at the Emily Manganese Project, Minnesota, USA
TORONTO, ON / ACCESSWIRE / February 14, 2023 / Nevada Silver Corporation ("NSC" or the "Company"...
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[{"type":"text","content":"Nevada Silver Corporation Commences Drilling at the Emily Manganese Project, Minnesota, USATORONTO, ON / ACCESSWIRE / February 14, 2023 / Nevada Silver Corporation (\"NSC\" or the \"Company\") (TSXV:NSC)(OTCQB:NVDSF) a US-based mineral development company with manganese and silver projects geared to supporting the transition to clean energy, is pleased to announce that the Company's Minnesota subsidiary, North Star Manganese Inc (\"NSM\") has received all necessary approvals and has commenced drilling at its Emily Manganese Project (\"Emily\" or the \"Project\"), Minnesota, USA.The Emily Project is located in the Cuyuna Iron Range of central Minnesota, USA (Figure 1), an area with a rich mining history and supported by well-established local infrastructure, a skilled mining workforce and abundant power and gas.Figure 1. The Emily Project is part of the Emily District of the Cuyuna Iron Range in Crow Wing County, Central Minnesota. The Emily District contains the highest-grade source of Manganese in North America. The Emily Manganese Project is comprised of two blocks of private lands totaling 291 acres of mineral rights with potential access to contiguous land within a footprint exceeding 500 acres, as shown in Figure 2 overleaf. The Project area has been previously drilled by Pickands Mather and US Steel in the 1950s and 1960s, and by Cooperative Mineral Resources in 2012 and 2013.The estimated Indicated Mineral Resource of 5.68Mt of 19.2% Mn and 23.02% Fe together with an Inferred Mineral Resource Estimate of 777.8Kt of 22.48% Mn and 22.15% Fe (Table 1)1were determined by Barr Engineering Company (\"North Star Manganese Inc. NI 43-101 Technical Report, Resource Estimate on the Emily Property, Minnesota, USA\").Figure 2. Location map showing current land under NSC control, bedrock in and around the Emily Project area, as well as historic drill holes by various parties (Peterson 2019). The Emily Project resources (Table 1) are based on drill holes located within the red circle. Table 1. NI 43-101 compliant Indicated and Inferred Mineral Resource estimate. The resource estimate includes drilling results from seven (7) diamond core drill holes completed during two separate drilling programs (2011 and 2012), these holes are located within the red circled area in Figure 1.Planned Drilling ProgramTwenty-seven diamond core verificatio...